One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.